Elaine Rogers, president of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, thanks Mary Lou Patel, president of NDIA's Washington, D.C., chapter, for chapter's gift of $35,000.

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Caption: Elaine Rogers (right), president of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, thanks Mary Lou Patel (left), president of NDIA's Washington, D.C., chapter, for chapter's gift of $35,000. The funds were raised from the 2006 golf and tennis outing sponsored jointly by the two organizations...